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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew

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Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, dismissed a legal precedent that parents in such cases should not be charged with kidnap.

That could mean them facing life imprisonment instead of the current seven year maximum for child abduction.

Lord Judge said the maximum term for child abduction should also be increased because it currently does not meet âtrue justiceâ, especially for the other âloving parentâ whose children are snatched away.

The call for a review came as he dismissed sentence appeals by two fathers who abducted their children and took them abroad "for very many years".

He said cases where fathers abducted children and took them abroad âhave become increasingly troublesomeâ.

While determining the question as to which parent the care and control of a child should be given, the paramount consideration remains the welfare and interest of the child and not the rights of the parents under the statute, the Supreme Court has held.

Giving this ruling, a Bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and B.S. Chauhan said: âWhile considering the welfare of the child, the moral and ethical welfare of the child must also weigh with the court as well as his physical wellbeing. The child cannot be treated as a property or a commodity and therefore, such issues have to be handled by the court with care, caution, love, and affection and applying a human touch to the problem.â

There are daughters of narcissistic mothers who have barely survived psychologically. In the extreme, there are daughters who starved themselves to death by anorexia as the only way they could find to salvage some small crumb of their existence. We know these daughters, even though their secrets of maternal deprivation and abuse are well camouflaged behind shining faces, glowing grades and strong professional portfolios. Trapped from early childhood, they are victims of a mother who was incapable of loving them.

The narcissistic mother is psychologically fused with her daughter. Her coldness and lack of empathy affect her child from the beginning. These mothers experience their daughters, not as unique individuals, but as extensions of themselves.

The State Governmentâs stand has been clarified following its republishing of the Union Ministry of Women and Child Developmentâs notification of guidelines governing the adoption of children, 2011 on December 8.

The notification, a copy of which is available with Deccan Herald, makes it unlawful for couples in a live-in relationship to adopt a child. Under the additional eligibility criteria for prospective adoptive parents (PAPs) the notification said:ââCouples in a live-in relationship are not eligible to adopt a child.â

And Ramesh Zalki, Secretary, State Women and Child Development Department said:ââBoth the parents need to be legally wed in order to adopt and the law is put in place keeping in mind the development of the child.â

From the outset, it is important for mothers and fathers to recognize that married parents of minor children start out with joint custody rights. This means that both parents have equal rights to their children, and the same right to pursue custody of their children in their divorce case. In a world where many households contain two working parents, and many fathers have an active role in raising their children, the presumption that mothers will automatically get custody no longer exists. In fact, statistics show that fathers who seek primary custody of their children are awarded custody 50% of the time. Custody laws are gender neutral, and this means that when the facts of a given case are applied to the governing law, a court may determine that it is in the best interests of the child to live primarily with the father, not the mother.

Itâs certainly not easy seeking access to your child when you are embroiled in a legal battle. Ask Guy Ritchie. Estranged wife Madonna reportedly issued a list of 12 dos and donâts when their kids Rocco and David visited him in London recently. The rules included a ban on TV, drinking only Kabalah water, avoiding non-organic food, among others.

Visitation rights are always a tricky issue with divorced couples. How much is too much? Is there a tendency to use children as a weapon in your battle against each other? Or do you have the maturity to not let kids get affected even if the war of words turns ugly in court? We asked a few Mumbaikars who have walked the thorny path in the past, on how to ensure the process of parenting is smooth.

Fatherlessness on a grand scale â an open letter to Julia Gillard on the 2011 Family Violence bill

Written by NCFM

Wednesday, 07 December 2011 13:07

I would just like to thank Fathers4Equality for all the information and support your group has made available to me over the years, especially during the times when I felt completely dissolutioned and abandoned by the family law system in this country.

Â Despite the hardships along the way, and for the one year when I was denied contact with my son because of false allegations of child sexual abuse, I now am happy to say that I have a very happy, co-operative and child-focussed shared parenting arrangement with my ex-wife, and have done so now for a number of years.